ECI 890

Attached is my final report on my qualitative case study of the twitter sub-network comprised of reciprocol following relationships with user edtechtalk. Feel free to add you comments … I prefer nice comments.

Stumbled on some interesting resources and articles regarding qualitative data analysis (QDA): Qualitative Articles Digital research tools wiki Transana: opensource qualitative analysis software for video and audio data ($65 student discount price) I purchased Transana and downloaded the trial version of the commercial Atlas QDA. Beyond the twitter project, I have a back-channel project where…

My data collection is done and I have a ton to read and re-read. I am clearly at the “so what?” stage and still struggling with the impact of where (and who) I focused on during the data collection stage. That said, I do think I captured data to help me answer my primary research…

I spent the week at AECT in Louisville, KY. The funny thing is the conference is attended by those who are paid to be edu-geeks, but I had about the most powered down week in the past 3 years. I had the awesome opportunity to meet f2f with 12 or so of my fellow ODU…

Just waiting now to hear if I have HSR approval to send out the interview. I tossed up the interview questions on SurveyMonkey last night and it should take participants around 15 minutes to answer the questions. I made each question a “required” response, but all they have to do is put a character in…

I concluded my Twitter observations last night and compiled all of my notes into one file. I am too tempted to quantitatively review my data … so I am going to get it out of my system here … I have over 1,093 individual tweets to review which I dumped into Excel to helps me…

Here is an interesting take on the “macro” twitter world (taken from the twitter API for all of twitter) that maybe can help me compare / contrast what I see in my “micro” world (for example, where folks post from, average number of followers, tweets, etc). http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/05/twitter-data-analysis-an-investors-perspective/

Going through the Twitter data collection I see that webinar means commercial … click to URL and you are greeted with cheesy graphics of earnest looking people in suits on the phone, looking at a computer, smiling around a conference table with words like “strategic / “newest” / “monitor progress” / “agenda” / “goal alignment”….

I thought I “knew” the edtech network before I started this Twitter project … or least I felt confident explaining it to others at conferences and on EdTechWeekly. However, 7 days into the data mining of the 3,500 or so reciprocal following / followed by relationships with Twitter user edtechtalk, I realize that I have…

My professor and (principle research investigator) routed my Twitter proposal to Human Subjects in the College of Education today. I also have two of my three research protocols stitched together, so things are moving forward despite (or maybe because of) comps. Kind of like cleaning during final exams … other work becomes a happy distraction…